# AnyCrawler, free: Web search API

> Find relevant web pages with a Web Search API.

AnyCrawler's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Answer.
We rank 511 plans by price. [browserfoundry's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/29-99-monthly-essential-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/free
- [Best web search API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.anycrawler.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://anycrawler.com/crawler/search/page/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AnyCrawler (https://anycrawler.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Answer: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch · Render · Image Search API · News Search API · Video Search API · Scholar Search API · Screenshot API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find relevant web pages with a Web Search API.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You may use AnyCrawler only in compliance with applicable law, these terms, and any separate written agreement that governs your account. You may not use the service to break the law, interfere with the security or availability of the service, evade access restrictions unlawfully, violate privacy or publicity rights, infringe intellectual property rights, distribute malware, perform credential abuse, run deceptive activity, or process data in ways that your own legal basis does not permit.", "Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use AnyCrawler to: access or attempt to access data without authorization, steal, replay, or misuse login credentials, cookies, tokens, or session data, bypass paywalls or access controls, solve or route around CAPTCHAs or similar anti-abuse controls through AnyCrawler, impersonate users, devices, or networks in a deceptive manner, or infringe or help others infringe website terms, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, or similar rights.", "Subject to these terms and your plan, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the service for your internal business purposes or other lawful uses of the product."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 credits
- Enough for: 250 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel "page", query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country, page, results_per_page
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, query, status code, credits used, search parameters, result position, result title, result link, result snippet, knowledge graph, answer box, people also ask, related searches

## AnyCrawler's plans (5)

- [AnyCrawler, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/5-monthly/llms.txt): $6.667 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/20-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/80-monthly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/200-monthly/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 17% complete

## AnyCrawler's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/search`: [AnyCrawler, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)

## AnyCrawler's APIs (5)

- [AnyCrawler: image search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-fetch/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Fetch, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-fetch-full/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-render/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-render-full/llms.txt)

## AnyCrawler: web search API alternatives

- [Firecrawl, $3,990 yearly, Growth, POST /v2/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/3990-yearly/llms.txt): $1.33 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [browserfoundry, $99.99 monthly, Startup, POST /api/v2/search/content](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-content/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Searlo, $199.99 pack, Pro, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/searlo/199-99-pack-pro-post-search-and-scrape-search-and-scrape-full/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/200-monthly/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 0% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

- https://anycrawler.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/crawler/search/page/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing